Aviation History

Aviation History Magazine is an authoritative, in-depth history of world aviation from its origins to the Space Age. Aviation History offers air enthusiasts the most detailed coverage of the history of manned flight, with action-packed stories and illustrations that put the reader in the cockpit with pilots and military (army, navy, and marine)aviators to experience aviation’s greatest dramas.

Operation Linebacker II Came as a Surprise • The Vietnam War’s final bombing campaign hit the communists hard but resulted in unnecessary American losses.

Aviation History

LESSON NOT LEARNED?

MIG KILLER REACHES USAF “HALL OF FAME”

NEW EARHART MUSEUM OPENS

RESTORED WELLINGTON HIGHLIGHTS RAF EXHIBIT

PACKING HEAT

A PISTOL • CAPTAIN CARMEN LUCCI AIMED TO BE AN ASTRONAUT, BUT FATE INTERVENED

TODAY IN HISTORY • DECEMBER 18, 1934

MORRELL’S FOLLY • THE RISE AND FALL OF A CALIFORNIA DREAM

THE THICK AND THIN OF PROPER SPIN • IT WASN’T THE ENGINES THAT DID IN THE WESTLAND WHIRLWIND

ARTISTS AND MODELS • AIRPLANE KITS WERE GREAT—BUT SOMETIMES THE ART ON THE BOX WAS EVEN BETTER

PROPER IDENTIFICATION

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NORTH TO ALASKA • IN 1934, AN OFFICER NAMED HAP ARNOLD ESTABLISHED HIMSELF AS A RISING STAR IN THE ARMY AIR CORPS BY LEADING A REMARKABLE 8,290-MILE ROUND TRIP

THE RAF’S LAST BIPLANE • THE STORY OF THE GLOSTER GLADIATOR HAS BECOME A MIXTURE OF FACT AND FANCY

THE BOMBING OF UAL TRIP 23 • IN 1933, COMMERCIAL AVIATION EXPERIENCED A TRAGIC FIRST

BETWEEN TWO WORLDS • THE DOUGLAS MIXMASTER HAD PROPELLERS; THE JETMASTER HAD NONE

BAD REPUTATION • WORLD WAR I’S BRITISH B.E.2c WAS BETTER THAN MANY PEOPLE THINK

THE BIGGER THEY ARE…

AN INTERVIEW WITH S.C. GWYNNE

MYSTERY SHIP • Can you identify this winged Quasimodo?

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